30% casino voucher reality

[tunafish]

Just wanted to share some info on MSC casino offers.

Just finished our first sailing on Divina and got a 30% off casino offer (you need 900 points to get it on board).

Trying to apply this voucher for another sailing booking you are getting WAY less than 30% off.

While it was clear to me that they would never discount port fees and taxes, the actual base rate has a portion that would not be part of the discount. We were planning a rather cheap sailing ($249pp) and $129 of this sum is out of discount. if you look at total price per cabin you overall discount is about 6%. Rep told me that the excluded part of base fare is different for all sailings and she could not disclose the percentage. It has to do with TA commission part of the price

 

[Shippy]

On 7/14/2022 at 12:57 PM, tunafish said:

Just wanted to share some info on MSC casino offers.

Just finished our first sailing on Divina and got a 30% off casino offer (you need 900 points to get it on board).

Trying to apply this voucher for another sailing booking you are getting WAY less than 30% off.

While it was clear to me that they would never discount port fees and taxes, the actual base rate has a portion that would not be part of the discount. We were planning a rather cheap sailing ($249pp) and $129 of this sum is out of discount. if you look at total price per cabin you overall discount is about 6%. Rep told me that the excluded part of base fare is different for all sailings and she could not disclose the percentage. It has to do with TA commission part of the price

 

  We are sailing in September in a category YC3 ONLY because of that discount .

Not on port & taxes & deduct the 5% prior passenger discount.....

It was a full 30% off the balance that was left AND they let us book through our own agent who through in paid gratuities & onboard credit. We just called them with the booking number & then they applied the discount.

This is the second time we are doing this in order to get a YC3 so I know it works.

My only concern is that someone posted awhile back that the 30% coupon will no longer apply to that category.